Charlotte Bronte Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Summer, Morning, Spring

• It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Fear, Adventure, Pride

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

• After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Found You, Solitude, Half

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.256, Penguin

• But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Inexperience, Youth, Blind

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

• Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Memories, Years, Age

• We wove a web in childhood, A web of sunny air; We dug a spring in infancy Of water pure and fair; We sowed in youth a mustard seed, We cut an almond rod; We are now grown up to riper age— Are they withered in the sod?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Spring, Cutting, Air

  '19 December 1835'

• I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Dream, Years, Gone

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